Listening In: Practices Surrounding iTunes Music Sharing
"This paper presents a descriptive account of the social
practices surrounding the iTunes music sharing of 13
participants in one organizational setting. Specifically, we
characterize adoption, critical mass, and privacy;
impression management and access control; the musical
impressions of others that are created as a result of music
sharing; the ways in which participants attempted to make
sense of the dynamic system; and implications of the
overlaid technical, musical, and corporate topologies. We
interleave design implications throughout our results and
relate those results to broader themes in a music sharing
design space."